Politics 101

The Democrat Party is the Cool Uncle that buys Booze and Cigarettes for his Nieces and Nephews

People characterize the Republicans as being a bunch of old fogies. Out of touch. Who don’t have a clue about the world today. Unlike their childrendo. Who are wise beyond their years. For they know there is nothing really bad with underage drinking and smoking. Smoking marijuana. Or doing other drugs. And there is nothing wrong with casual sex. Sexting. Or nude selfies.

This is why the children of old fogies like the Democrat Party. Because the Democrats get them. Unlike their parents. Their parents tell them they shouldn’t stay out late, drink, smoke, do drugs or have sex. While the Democrats decriminalize marijuana and work to decriminalize other drugs. Provide free birth control. And abortion without parental notification. Making the Democrat Party the cool uncle that buys booze and cigarettes for his nieces and nephews. So is it any wonder that the youth vote goes Democrat?

The ironic thing, though, is that these old fogies were once young themselves. And some were pretty wild in their youth, too. But once they became parents things changed. For when it’s their daughter they don’t want her being objectified. Encouraged to explore her sexuality by having so much casual sex that she catches a sexually transmitted disease or gets pregnant. Especially if they did in their youth. Which is the last thing they want for their little girl. Who is and will forever remain their little girl.

Keynesian Economics conditioned People to accept that Government knows Best

This is the rule. Not the exception. As kids grow up fighting their parents they reach a point in life where they realize that their parents were right all along. That if they had only spent more time on their homework and less time partying things would have turned out better. Life may have been less fun in the short-run but much better in the long-run. They’d had an earlier start in their career. A career with better pay and benefits. They could have bought a house sooner. Met someone to marry and start a family with sooner. Instead of finding themselves at 25 buried under student loan debt for a degree that can’t get them a job. And a decade or so of hooking up having conditioned men to shun any serious commitment. Leading their daughters to turn to serial dating and online dating. As they struggle to find someone else who has grown up, too.

This is what the old fogies know. That their kids don’t. You get wiser with age. Thanks to education. And experience. Two things the young just don’t have. And never will. Because by the time they grow wise from education and experience they are no longer kids. But well on their way to ‘old fogery’. Which is, of course, a problem for the Democrat Party. For a wise voting public will not help them win elections. As their Keynesian economic policies have nothing but a long record of failure. Giving us the Great Depression, the stagflation of the 1970s, the dot-com recession and the Great Recession. To name a few bad economic times Keynesian economics have given us. Things older people know from education and experience. But the kids voting Democrat don’t.

Keynesian economics ushered in the era of Big Government. And did something the Socialists could not. Conditioned people to accept that government knows best. Especially young people. Uneducated and inexperienced young people. Despite the Democrats’ horrible record concerning things economic. Because of this record the Democrats use lies and deceit to attack free market capitalism. That economic system that worked better than any other. To get people who knew no better to mistrust free market capitalism. And ask for the government to fetter unfettered capitalism. To make the world a fairer place.

The Democrats use Public Education to teach our Kids to Distrust Capitalism and to Trust Government

It sounds good to the inexperienced and uneducated. Because it feels good to think in terms of fairness. And if there is one thing the young have are emotions. They like to use their hearts. Not their brains. As they are idealistic and naïve. Unlike those old fogies who are realists. They can’t be fooled or swayed by the Democrat lies because they have learned and experienced a lot in their long lives. And heard the same old Democrat lies all through those long lives. Which is why the Democrats work so hard on the youth vote. The War on Women, their lax drug attitudes, birth control, abortion, gay rights…all of these are to get the young to think in terms of fairness. To tug on their heartstrings. To get them emotional. And keep them emotional. As well as ignorant.

The more ignorant people are the easier it is to lie to them. Anyone who knows the history of Western Civilization will understand how life became better for people as we moved closer to free market capitalism. Anyone who knows classical economics will understand how thrift, savings, free trade, sound money, etc., made America the number one economy in the world. While the Keynesian policies of today are threatening to knock America out of that number one spot. People who understand these things are not going to vote Democrat. Which is why the Democrats work hard to keep people from learning these things. By constantly lying about them. And not teaching them in the institutions they control. Our public schools. And our institutions of higher education.

The Republican equation for winning votes is a difficult equation. Knowledge + Experience + Reason = Republican Votes. It’s difficult because the Democrats have long controlled public education. Thanks to their friends in the teacher unions. And their friends running our institutions of higher education. Which spend more time teaching our kids to distrust capitalism. And to trust government. To feel more. And think less. To live for today. And not worry about tomorrow. Making it very difficult for the Republicans to get young voters to vote for them. As they are unknowledgeable (thanks to our public schools), inexperienced (because they are young) and prefer emotion over reason (because feeling is more fun than thinking). Which is why old fogies (the knowledgeable, experienced and thinking) vote Republican and the youth vote does not.

Economics 101

The Party of the Working Man misrepresents the Jobs Data and Lies to the People

Figures don’t lie but liars figure. Something Mark Twain is said to have said. Mark Twain is, of course, Samuel Langhorne Clemens. But we know him by his pen name. Mark Twain. And the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. But he was also a science buff. And close friend of Nikola Tesla. The father of AC power. And he thought that most Congress people were liars and thieves. With personal agendas. Who will lie about facts and figures to get what they want. And what do people in government want? What all people in governments throughout time have wanted. Wealth. And power.

Every king, noble and aristocrat has acted selfishly in history to acquire wealth and power. The privileged few. Or one. They held the power. Traded favors. And worked together. Landowners amassed great wealth thanks to peasants working their land. The king maintained the system that limited land ownership to a privileged few. And the privileged few paid back the king with a share of their wealth. By working together they exploited the masses to amass wealth. So they could live the good life. Comfortable in their wealth. With the power to do whatever they wanted. And this hasn’t changed over time. Well, it has in one respect. With the advent of democracy it is a little more difficult to do what you want when in elected office.

Today no one leaves Congress poor. They are set for life. With a generous pension. And benefits most workers never get while gainfully employed. And how do they do this? The same way that kings, nobles and aristocrats have always acquired wealth. By using political power to exploit the masses. And the key to this is growing government as large as possible. To give them that power. And the ability to grant favors. Throwing a few handouts to the peasants to win their love and admiration. Thus pleasing enough of the electorate to win elections. But the policies they use to make this happen have a major drawback. They are anti-business. And kill jobs. Putting people out of work. Which can be a problem when you’re the party of the working man. And working woman. So you have to at times misrepresent the jobs data. And lie to the people.

The United States and Kim Jong Un have an Obesity Problem while the North Korean People suffer Famine

History has shown that low taxes and limited government grow economies. This is what made the United States the number one economic power in the world. Which was able to happen because it happened before the era of Big Government in the United States. Right now there are emerging economies in the world going through a similar phase. And their stellar economic growth will sputter out once the size of their governments grow. Just like they have in many advanced economies that have transitioned into a social democracy. For there is nothing that stamps out economic growth like higher taxes and greater regulatory costs. Which is why the Soviet Union, the countries behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, The People’s Republic of China (under Mao), North Korea, Cuba, etc., have never been great economic powers. Instead these countries that practiced fairness and redistributive policies suffered some of the most abject poverty and the lowest standards of living. Not to mention having some of the most brutal and oppressive police states to keep their people from fleeing their social utopias.

But when it came to economic production these nations all lied to their people. If you listened to the Soviet propaganda machine communism had won. There was no way free market capitalism could match the managed communist economy. They were growing bumper crops. Their factories were putting out more goods than they could use. And life was just peachy in the Soviet police state. A lot of people in the West believed this. And fought to undermine capitalism so they, too, could install socialist utopias in the West. But the people living in those socialist utopias had a little more trouble believing the lies. For they were waiting hours in lines to buy soap and toilet paper. They saw stores with empty shelves. And stores with shelves full of things no one wanted to buy. They had to wait years before it was their turn to buy a car. Or get an apartment. And forever speak in hushed tones for fear the secret police might hear them utter some dissatisfaction of the socialist system. Lest they disappear to some reeducation camp in Siberia.

And while the people suffered those in power did not. In socialism everyone was equal. But like George Orwell said in Animal Farm, some were more equal than others. North Korea suffers from recurring famine. And depends on food imports to prevent future famines. So your average North Korean is not going to have an obesity problem. While the United States suffers an obesity crisis because their people eat too much food North Korea suffers through recurring famines where people starve to death. But you know who isn’t starving to death? Kim Jong Un. The new ruler of North Korea. Who not only appears to be well fed. But even looks obese. And this in a country that suffers from recurring famines. And it’s been the same throughout history. Those champions of the people always lived better than the people. For those in the inner party in the Soviet Union went to the front of the line when it came to cars and apartments.

Kings, Nobles, Aristocrats and those in the Federal Government act Selfishly to acquire Wealth and Power

This is why people want political power. Because it is a pathway to wealth. Especially for those people who don’t have the ability to create wealth on their own. Like a small business owner. So they need to use political power. Favor. Privilege. And deceit. Which is an important tool for today’s politician’s in a democracy. Deceit. Such as when they figure with the economic figures. The Obama administration has implemented some of the most business unfriendly policies that have just stamped out all economic growth. Which is why we have been wallowing in a jobless recovery following the Great Recession. While some would even say the Great Recession lingers on. Despite what the economic data says. For they have little faith in the numbers anymore. For with every jobs report the Obama administration highlights the new jobs the economy created. And how even though the numbers could be better we are definitely on the right path. As the unemployment rate continues to fall. Dropping below 8% just in time for the 2012 election. As no president ever won reelection with an unemployment rate above 8%. So it was rather convenient it fell just in time for the election. Perhaps a little bit too convenient. Especially when you look at the other economic numbers (see Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization and Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey).

The U3 unemployment rate is the official unemployment rate. Which fell to 7.6% in March. Yet another improvement. But the U3 unemployment rate doesn’t count everyone who can’t find a full time job. The U6 unemployment rate counts more people who can’t find a full-time job. And it fell to 13.8% in March. Which is an improvement. But the number of people who can’t find a full time job is still in double digits. And has moved little from around 14%. One thing both the U3 and the U6 numbers have in common is that they have changed little in the last 6 months. While the number of people in the civilian labor force has changed. A lot. So one of these numbers doesn’t appear to agree with the other two. For if the unemployment rate was steady one would think the number of people in the civilian labor force would be steady, too. Which makes one question the accuracy of the official unemployment rate. And the constant reports of how the economy is improving. How it’s on the right path. As they talk about all the new jobs their policies have created. Despite the stubbornly high unemployment numbers. But if we look at that job creation and the changes in the size of the civilian labor force we get a different picture of that improving economy (see Employment Situation Archived News Releases).

The latest jobs report shows 88,000 new jobs added to the economy. Less than projected. And a bit of a disappointment to those in the ‘the economy is on the right path’ crowd. But they still find solace in the fact that the economy added jobs. Just as it has for the previous 5 months. If you add this job creation up during this 6-month period it totals 953,000 new jobs. That’s about 1 million new jobs. Not a strong recovery. But not too shabby. But if we look at the change in the civilian labor force we don’t see 1 million new jobs. Over the same 6-month period we see a net LOSS of 28,000 people from the civilian labor force. Which agrees more with the reality of the current economy. And the U6 unemployment rate. It’s bad. People can’t find a full-time job. And it’s because of the anti-business policies of the Obama administration. But for the past 4 years or so they have massaged the jobs data to lead us to believe that they were creating jobs when they were actually destroying jobs. Why? Because kings, nobles, aristocrats and those in the federal government act selfishly to acquire wealth and power.